Developing a new generation of collaborative scientists and citizens through popular media

该项目将侧重于了解媒体如何改善男孩和女孩对女科学家和工程师的看法，并增加儿童对STEM中混合性别合作的理解。将开发和传播两个主要产品。第一个将是8集11分钟的流行儿童节目，埃莉诺想知道为什么，达到1650万观众。 这将被用作一系列严格研究的干预措施，并向公众广播，供公众使用和随后受益。第二个将是一个基于游戏的，画一个科学家，评估中，3-6岁的参与者和他们的照顾者将创建基于贴纸的场景，包括科学家或工程师的化身在各种情况下“工作”，以澄清幼儿对科学和工程的看法。 该项目有可能通过模拟和庆祝混合性别STEM协作工作来造福社会。该项目建立了基于性别的STEM研究的知识和理解，并为未来探索媒体中青年观念的影响提供了学习。该项目采用混合方法研究和迭代设计过程，涉及利益相关者，青年和他们的成年照顾者，以及大学教师，PBS站教育工作者和媒体开发人员之间的伙伴关系，以解决这些问题：在多大程度上儿童认为科学是一种性别化的职业？儿童和他们的照顾者如何看待科学中的女性？孩子们是否将科学视为一个合作的过程？孩子们是否认为科学对社区很重要？第二项研究将包括（1）将游戏化评估嵌入到更大的Elinor Wonders Why PBS数字游戏中，（2）通过数字转换将评估直接与媒体联系起来，以及（3）通过社交媒体，广播和流媒体传播干预（插曲）和评估（游戏），以便公众参与。这5类，研究支持广泛的公众参与与干，项目是由推进非正式干学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划支持的项目：（a）有助于研究和实践，认为非正式干学习的平等和归属感在干的作用;（B）促进个人和教育在干的成功;（c）推进公众参与科学发现;（d）培养对STEM职业的兴趣;（e）为有效的非正式STEM学习创造和加强理论和经验基础;（f）提高社区活力;和/或（g）加强科学传播和公众参与并理解STEM和STEM进程。该项目由促进非正式科学学习（AISL）和激励竞争性研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will focus on understanding how media can improve boys' and girls' perceptions of female scientists and engineers and increase children's understanding of mixed-gender collaborations in STEM. Two main products will be developed and disseminated. The first will be eight 11-minute episodes of the popular children's program, Elinor Wonders Why, which reaches 16.5 million viewers. This will be used as an intervention within a series of rigorous research studies and broadcast to audiences for public use and subsequent benefit. The second will be a game-based, Draw-a-Scientist, assessment in which 3-6 year old participants and their caregivers will create sticker-based scenes that include scientist or engineer avatars 'at work' in a variety of contexts in order to clarify young children's perceptions of science and engineering. This project has the potential to benefit society by modeling and celebrating mixed gender STEM collaborative work.The project builds knowledge and understanding on gender-based STEM research and provides learnings for future ways of exploring the impact of youth perceptions in media. The project uses mixed methods research and an iterative design process that involves stakeholders, youth and their adult caretakers, and partnerships among university faculty, PBS station educators, and media developers to address these questions: To what degree do children perceive science as a gendered occupation? How do children and their caregivers perceive women in science? Do children perceive science as a collaborative process? Do children perceive science as important to the community? A second study will include (1) embedding the gamified assessment into a larger Elinor Wonders Why PBS digital game, (2) linking the assessment directly to the media via a digital throw transition, and (3) disseminating the intervention (episode) and the assessment (game) linked together for public engagement through social media, broadcast, and streaming. This Type 5, Research in Support of Wide-reaching Public Engagement with STEM, project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which supports projects that: (a) contribute to research and practice that considers informal STEM learning's role in equity and belonging in STEM; (b) promote personal and educational success in STEM; (c) advance public engagement in scientific discovery; (d) foster interest in STEM careers; (e) create and enhance the theoretical and empirical foundations for effective informal STEM learning; (f) improve community vibrancy; and/or (g) enhance science communication and the public's engagement in and understanding of STEM and STEM processes. This project is jointly funded by Advancing Informal Science Learning (AISL), and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.